The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-09

The public Gebt statement issued
ON the LIST shows a reduction of Sl2,.
sos, 467 during March. Total cash In
the Treasury, 1853, Iii, 086.
The steamer SaragOssa, from Bal
tImore for Port Antonio, has foundered
at sea, $50 miles north OF Waiting
Island. Her crew were saved and
landed at Bermuda.
"A telegram from Chatham. Massa-
chusetts, says the storm of the % was
the worst OF the winter. During the
afternoon the wind blew with great
force, uprooting trees, breaking wires
and blowing down fences. The snow
drifted badly, blocking the roads. The
sea outside and on the shoals was
something terrible. The Pollock Rip
lightship was blown from her station.
| The gale at Vineyard Haven was the
most violent for several years. A num-
Der of schooners and other vessels were
driven ashore, but no loss of life is re-
ported zone of the severest snow
| storms ever experienced" in that vi
cinIty began at Waldboro, Maine, on
the afternoon of the % and continued
until the morning Of the Sd blockdaing
all the roads. Two trains on the Knox
and Lincoln road became stalled, and
the passengers on each were obliged to
remain in the cars all night.
In Chicago, on the evening of the
I'd, Herman Knauf, % years old, shot
and seriously wounded his sweetheart,
Lizzie Zinke, and then shot himself,
inflicting a wound which it is thought
will prove fatal. Jealousy was the
cause of the shooting, which occurred
in the tenement home of the girl on
West DIVISION street. Knauf is a
tanner. at Johnstown, Pa on the
evening Of the 1st, Daniel McFall, "a
six-foot iron worker, kicked John
Cronin, a fourteen-year-old messenger
boy, in the stomach, iEaictipg fatal
Injuries. The assault was unprovoked,
but McFall was drunk at the time.
The Governor OF Pennsylvania on
the I'd issued a proclamation fixing
April 22d as "Arbor Day." He calls
upon schools and citizens generally to
plant trees upon that day, ard in con
clusion says: ''In case the day herein
designated should be unsuitable in any
portion of the commonwealth, let an
adjournment be had to some future
day which will suit the climate and
convenience of the locality"
"A telegram from st. John says that
a party of sealers recently went from
the west coast of Newfoundland on a
sealing expedition. The ice moved
seward, carrying the men with it.
Two bodies have been recovered from
the ice flow. The men had been frozen
to death.
No additional particulars have been
received of the disaster to the steamer
Eagle on the Newfoundland coast, but
a rescuIng vessel has been sent to the
scene in the hope that there are some
survivors The Eagles crew number
275 men.
The Pacific coast steamer Mexico,
plying between San Francisco and
Puget Sound, was wrecked on the night
of the 3lst, four miles south of Plum
pus Pass, Vancouver's Island. All
hand were saved. The loss of the YES
sci is $3.50. 000. The loss on the cargo
Is not yet known.
kilograms from Bismarck and
Yankton. Dakota, report at the former
place "a BLIZZARD and at the latter "a
bowling snow Storm" The tempera-
ture at Yankton fell from 40 above
zero on the I'd TO zero on the Sd.
"A dispatch from Coushatts,
Louisian a, says A. G. Brown became
incensed against A. Cockerham on ac-
count of some business troubles, and,
the afternoon Of the ID, finding HIM
at the store of his father.in-law j.
Henry Scheen, pistols were drawn and
they began firing upon each other. MI.
Sheen was shot and instantly killed.
Mr.. Brown received a shot in each
arm. and after promiscuOus firing on
both sides, left the store. AS he was
going out young John II. Scheen seized
a double barreled gun loaded with duck
shot and fired upon Brown, causing his
death. J. Henry Scheen was widely
in commercial circles, and Mr..
Brown has been a planter in the parish
for many years.
DIR. James Hodges, who was con-
victed of exploding a bomb in the
Grand Opera House in San Francisco
February 9th, during a Patti con-
cert, was on the I'd, sentenced to two
years. Imprisonment.
An engine and t~hirty-four freight
cars jumped he track on the Grand
junction (Boston and Albany Railroad
in Cambridge, Massachusetts,, on the
afternoon of the I'd. James Larmer, a
brakeman, was instantly killed, and
another brakeman named Bates was
badly hurt.
The Hotel Del Monte, at Monterey
California. was destroyed by fire on
the night of the LIST. There were 800
guests In the hotel, mostly Eastern
No lives were lost, but none
of them were able to save their trunks
or clothing, and many ladies suffered
severely from the cold on the hotel
grounds, where they had to pass the
night. The total loss, including losses
of guests. is estimated at nearly
81 500, 900. A fire in Berwick, Penua.,
the morning of the Cd, destroyed
the st. Charles Hotel, the Opera
House, Odd Fellows Hall and {.
Halls butcher shop. Loss, $4,000;
partly insured.
Two freight trains on the Michi-
gan Central Railroad collided on The
morning of the ID neal Springfield,
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